A 17-year-old boy has been detained in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut for allegedly hammering his shut good friend to demise. The teenager has confessed and advised police that his good friend, Abhinav, had stolen some photos and movies of his girlfriend from his cellphone and was blackmailing her.
Abhinav and the accused had been college students of Class 11 and 12, respectively, and had been neighbours. They had been making ready for engineering entrance exams and would go collectively to a training centre about 15 km from their houses. Abhinav would trip his scooter and the accused would sit pillion.
The 2 left for the teaching class on Saturday, however Abhinav didn’t return until late night. When his dad and mom requested the accused, he mentioned he didn’t know the place Abhinav was. Abhinav’s father Sunil Kumar registered a lacking particular person grievance that night time and mentioned he suspected the accused.
Police picked up the accused and scanned CCTV footage that confirmed the 2 youngsters had been collectively. Throughout questioning, the accused confessed to murdering Abhinav.
The accused advised the cops that he had some movies of his girlfriend on his cellphone. He mentioned Abhinav had seen these movies and transferred them to his cellphone. Abhinav then began blackmailing his girlfriend and requested her to hang around with him, the accused has mentioned. When his girlfriend advised him about this, he plotted Abhinav’s homicide.
On Saturday, the accused advised Abhinav he wished to promote his cellphone. The 2 went to a store and bought the cellphone for Rs 8,000. They then ate at a restaurant. On their manner again, they stopped close to a tubewell. Instantly, the accused took a hammer out of his bag and hit Abhinav on the pinnacle. The accused has advised police that he saved hitting Abhinav even after he fell to the bottom.
Police handed over Abhinav’s physique to his household Sunday. His family, nevertheless, refused to cremate him until they obtained justice. They’ve mentioned the accused couldn’t have killed Abhinav on his personal and demanded that police arrest the opposite accused.
“Police mustn’t mislead us. They need to inform us the reality, about who all had been concerned. We must always know what occurred to our boy,” mentioned Abhinav’s relative Kuldeep.
“The accused has mentioned there have been some movies of him and his girlfriend on his cellphone and Abhinav had stolen them. He was upset and he deliberate this. We’ve recovered the physique and the hammer. We’ve taken the accused into custody. He’s a minor and he will probably be produced in court docket. We are going to scan the CCTV footage to see if anybody else is concerned within the crime and take motion. The household is demanding motion towards everybody concerned and we are going to do it,” Meerut police chief Ayush Vikram Singh mentioned.